The Topsy Turvy Galaxy Gerd DaniJuly 10, 2021March 28, 20260 The Topsy Turvy Galaxy (also known as NGC 1313, PGC 12286, and ESO 082-G 011) is a spiral barred galaxy,… Read More
An Entire Swarm of Black Holes Has Been Caught Moving Through The Milky Way Gerd DaniJuly 10, 2021March 28, 20260 A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of… Read More
The Cosmic Zoo! Gerd DaniJuly 9, 2021March 28, 20260 This is a composite of images taken over several years (2010, 2015, 2018), most recently using a 200mm Pentax lens… Read More
A Galactic spectacle Gerd DaniJuly 9, 2021March 28, 20260 A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA’s Great Observatories. The Antennae galaxies, located about… Read More
The Shape of the Southern Crab Gerd DaniJuly 9, 2021March 28, 20260 The symmetric, multi-legged appearance of the Southern Crab Nebula is certainly distinctive. About 7,000 light-years distant toward the southern sky… Read More
LANIAKEA SUPERCLUSTER Gerd DaniJuly 9, 2021March 28, 20260 This term has been appearing since September 2014. Many of you may not have heard what it is about, but… Read More
Meeting Despina Gerd DaniJuly 9, 2021March 28, 20260 Despina is a small moon of Neptune with an average diameter of only 148 km. It was discovered in 1989… Read More
The beautiful NGC 2392 Gerd DaniJuly 8, 2021March 28, 20260 When a star of similar mass to the Sun enters the final stages of its life, it expels its surface… Read More
We want Pluto back! Gerd DaniJuly 7, 2021March 28, 20260 It may not be considered a planet anymore, but Pluto is still as interesting as the planets that orbit our… Read More
What is a Dark fluid? Gerd DaniJuly 7, 2021March 28, 20260 Dark fluid is an alternative theory to both dark matter and dark energy and attempts to explain both phenomena in… Read More